Coffee may protect against Alzheimer's disease RT @latimeshealth

, the active ingredient of curcuminoids -- a natural substance found in turmeric root -- that may help boost the immune system in clearing amyloid beta, a peptide that forms the plaques found in Alzheimer's disease. Using blood samples from Alzheimer's disease patients, researchers found that bisdemethoxycurcumin boosted immune cells called macrophages to clear amyloid beta.

#Alzheimers drugs don't do much, here's a different approach: evidence-based compassion from @hereandnow (via @9brandon)

In a new study, to be published online Sept. 16 in the journal Current Biology, researchers from UC Berkeley's Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and School of Optometry found that study participants showed significantly greater benefits from practice on a task that involved discriminating directions of motion after they took donepezil, sold under the brand name Aricept, compared with a placebo.

Rescuing fruit flies from Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer’s brain protein may provide target for treating mental retardation

Cell phone exposure may protect against and reverse Alzheimer's disease http://ow.ly/16hKen

Manipulating Brain Inflammation May Help Clear Brain Of Amyloid Plaques, Researchers Say http://ow.ly/15WMbL